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Designing knitting patterns is great fun. What I like best is to design for magazines. The prosess starts with the magazine defining a topic for the specific issue of their magazine. When the editorial staff has decided on the topic they put together a mood board and describe textures and styles they are looking for. That whole package is what we designers get.

I really like to work within the framework drawn up by the staff at the magazines. It helps me focus and it challenges me to think in ways I don’t necessarily do when I can design what ever I fancy.
Having come up with a design in drawing, I swatch to test yarns, gauge and texture. The this is submitted to the magazine. The is the waiting! The staff goes trough all the incoming designs and work to put together designs that will work well together to make up a compelling issue of the magazine.
If I am so lucky to be chosen as one of the designers we discuss yarn, and sometimes colours, and I get started knitting.

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It´s more than a year since I have posted anything and I feel ashamed! It´s been a busy year juggling a lot for projects in my payed line of work (space industry), knitting and some volunteer work I do. I have also travelled and had the pleasure of spending four weeks in Japan. That was a real treat and food for my creativity!

I have missed sitting down and blogging about my creative projects, I have missed my creative projects!

I will write a few post on my trip to Japan in the following weeks, but for now I will share some highlights!

This beautiful castle is in Matsumoto, in Nagano Prefecture. We arrived just as all the cherry blooms open! It was spectacular!

What to have for lunch today..? In Japan I found this to be a huge problem! A luxurious problem though. When your options looks like this – and and the variety is out of this world – it takes time!

Osaka! What a lovely, vibrant and packed city!

I will soon share more of my adventures in Japan with you. You can look forward to seeing som wonderful craft, beautiful scenery and strange tings! I fell in love with Japan.

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Am I the only one who feel an irrational urge to knit chickens at this time of the year?! It must be the sun shining on Norway and Easter approaching that create this strange urge. There are so many fun knitting patterns for chickens too. I want to share some of my favourites – in case there are more knitters out there feeling the need to pick yellow scrap yarn out form the basket and turn it into chickens!

Here are some cool knitted feathers friends (click on the image for pattern).

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With all things we do there is a first time. It is a long time since I knitted my first stitch and millions of stitches later I am proud to have contributed to the book Knitting for Beginners.

I like the book since it contains everything you need to become a knitter! It has 36 patterns and covers several different techniques. If you take very easily to knitting the book is not too basic. It covers some of the fun things like lace, cable and stranded knitting, along with simple scarf and other basic projects.

My contributions are, not surprisingly, Fair Isle projects. I created a hat in classic Nordic style specially for the book. The pattern will be available in the patten shop here on my blog soon.

I also contributed a pair for Fair Isle boot cuffs. They are fun and fast to knit and can be used with wellies and ankle boots.

The pattern for the Fair Isle Boot cuffs is available in the pattern shop.

If you are looking for an introduction to knitting I think the Knitting for Beginners will be a good place to start. Not only a good place to start, it also have projects to help you develop your new craft to a very competent level.

The book have both photo tutorials and online video tutorials.

There are some fun projects in the book I would like to make myself like the little penguin!

At the end of the book there is a section with different stitch patterns that makes it easy for the knitter to desired texture to your projects.

All in all it is a book that can make you fall in love with knitting – even if you have no previous experience!

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It´s really really cold outside today with temperatures at -15C. That makes it a good day for wearing my knitted sweaters – and I can wear several at the same time!

Here are some of my favourite cold wether knits.

Chunky knit t-shirt.

This chunky knit t-shirt is made of left over yarn held double. I used large needles so the sweater is loosely knitted. That makes it really warm and cosy top that can be worn over a blouse or a long sleeve t-shirt. I have knitted several versions of this sweater, and they are all adapted from a free pattern on Ravelry called Super Birthday Sweater by Jenifer Stark. My favourite version is a dress with 3/4 sleeve – I hope to take photos and share it with you soon.

As most of my followers know I love to create things you can wear around your neck!

This loose fitting neck warmer has been in the office nearly every day so far this year. It is knitted in a hand spun yarn with little seed beads in it. I love the way it fits so nicely over a blouse. The pattern is available on Etsy and Ravelry.

Fari Isle boot cuffs

Another hand knit item that is in frequent use these days are my Fair Isle boot cuffs. They are fun to knit and I have made several different colour combinations to choose between before I head out of the door!

I have so many hand knit sweaters, hats, scarfs and neck warmers that I will never suffer out in the cold.

Many people in other parts of the world think it is unthinkable to go about your daily life in -15C, but I was born here and I like it! Something happens to the air when it is really cold and colours of the low sun becomes very beautiful.